Crushed and Compacted

[True Terran]

Lately I have been trying to project.  I reach a point during my trance pratice where I feel as if I am being crushed and compacted from head to toe like I'm in some vice grip.  It doesn't hurt and isn't painful, but I can't get past it to the OBE exit point.

Just curious if anyone else has had this problem, or knows of a way to work thru it.

Desperately needing to project,

TT

[interception]

Hi TT

I've had similar distracting sensations of being crushed. Or of odd crushing weights in the form of spheres rather.

This is going to sound a bit odd, but before the sleep state hit, I used to have strange feelings of huge spheres rolling on thin wires.  Does that makes sense? It wasn't a dream, and these..... sensations, or whatever they were, used to make me very uncomfortable. SO much so that I had to go get a drink of water to and walk it off.

They went away on their own though, thankfully. It is possible it could just be a mental stumbling block brought on by fear?

[Stookie]

Strange feelings like that tend to happen as your body is going to sleep and you're keeping your mind awake. As your sensory input slows down your brain starts to fill in the spaces with weird feelings or sounds or sights (hypnogogic). It's best to relax through this, keep your mind awake, and get into F10 or similar.

[True Terran]

Thanks you two for the comments.  I feel you both are correct in that these are merely pre-obe exit sensations that I must learn to ignore.  The sad part is that I have been stuck at this pre-obe point for some time now.  Astral noise has also be been a little annoying too, but I guess these symptons mean I am on the right track!   


 

[soulche]

i am in a similar stange, can get numb and stiff all over my body while doing visualizations but no out of body...yet...i think

i'm gonna keep trying though

che

[soulche]

the feeling or seeing of big small on small wires...i have had similar sensations.. I call them fever dreams...
it is in the way I am visualizing things that gets me into that type of "big feeling" which can be uncomfortable
but just tune your awareness out of that sort if you can

che